Mark Sanchez on the Jets: 'We're building a dream team'

Rex Ryan has set a confident tone for the New York Jets with his fearless predictions that the Jets will appear in the Super Bowl this season.

The coach signed "soon-to-be-champs" next to his name on an ESPN bus that was headed to Patriots camp last month. So from a coach who sets such an example, similar comments from his players shouldn't be surprising.

But these comments the New York Daily News collected from Jets players' assessment of their team will likely raise some eyebrows -- and hit some bulletin boards -- around the AFC.

Antonio Cromartie: "We're the Miami Heat of football."

Mark Sanchez, on learning of big-name offseason acquisitions from GM Mike Tannenbaum: "He's like, 'We're picking up another one.' I was like, 'Geez! What's going on here? We're building a dream team.'"

Bart Scott: "It doesn't matter to me. It's much more fun to be the villain than the hero."

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